Felt like time for a new post.
Beavs have been hot in free agency today, with the additions of:
4* QB Maalik Murphy(Duke)
4* TE Jackson Bowers(BYU)
LB Walker Harris(S. Utah)
Signs also point to continued activity as we have several transfers the Beavs have either had on visit or soon to visit.
4*USC LB Raesjon Davis comes tomorrow.
The transfer portal has been kind to the Beavs as of late.
Is it good recruiting?
Or an influx of donations the fans are unaware of?
Should be a fun week for the Beavs.
Also on the agenda, the Beavs need to hire a new RB coach after Ford took the HC position at Idaho.
Speculate away….
Raesjon Davis’ recruiting profile:
https://247sports.com/player/raesjon-davis-46056065/high-school-218182/
In 2021…..
“One of the most versatile linebackers in the country. Covers like a safety but hits like a linebacker. Lacks ideal length for an outside ‘backer but does have long arms on his 6-1 frame and might not be done growing. Very good as an outside pass rusher showing the burst to get around the edge and the power to run through most high school tackles. Can break down in space and is an excellent open field tackler and shows the speed to run down plays from behind. Has a non-stop motor and plays with an aggressive edge to him. Projects as an impact, upper-tier Power 5 starter and future high-round NFL draft pick.”
Go Beavs!
Murphy is a surprise, but pairing him with an upgrade at TE makes sense. Maybe CLemons staying helped with some of this in terms of what the offense could look like going forward. My guess is the goal will be a shift toward the typical pro style and backing away form the RPO/option approach with these guys signing. Next we need to see a few dlinemen and Oline signees.
It does play with the emotions to think we have some guys on the staff whoare pretty good recruiters and still have some connecrtions with the guys that are buried elsewhere or just want to change their situation.
I do like the sound of bringing in multiple 4 star guys each portal cycle. We know we aren’t losing the 4 star guys because we never sign them out of high school anyway.
Anxiously awaiting the next 4 star announcement….
Beavs need to go after Deuce Robinson. and J Micheal Sturdivant.
Sounds like Duce is visiting FSU where his dad played. Also linked to ASU and Louisville.
Per PFF, Harris is 6’5 250 and transferred from U of Sioux Falls before SUU. Must be a grad transfer.
Played his best game of the season against Utah with 6 hurries including 1 sack. 3 sacks total on the season. Had ups and downs this year, but that’s kind of expected when you’re inexperienced at the current level.
Probably a depth guy with some upside? We need Saez Hickle, and Omo to carry the load and Howard to contribute. We’re probably set at that position now.
Need a DT or two, LB’s and a CB now…
Why did Maalik choose the Beavs? With the season he had, shouldn’t he have moved on to a bigger program? Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy, just trying to make sense of it.
He’s a “big” personality and didn’t get the NIL offers he thought he would. Probably had a good relationship with the staff from last year, too.
What you said and he has a really good relationship with Gundy as he recruited him hard at UCLA.
Natty
Haha at free agency
Somebody finally put a bag on the table….
10-year, on demand supply of Reser salsa and potato salad….
In a USAToday ranking of top QBs available, Murphy comes in at #7:
“Maalik Murphy (Duke)
Murphy is a definite Power Four starter after throwing for 2,933 yards and 26 touchdowns in his single season with the Blue Devils. The former Texas transfer threw for at least 235 yards eight times and had a flair for the dramatic, leading Duke to six wins decided by a single possession.”
Maybe the offense will be built primarily on Murphy’s and Gutridge’s pocket passing, with some packages for GJ to mix things up, take advantage of his mobility, and keep him engaged and on the team?
The RBs will be there for play action, TR Bowers adds a lot of potential, and Clemons and others will need to step up their games.
The Murphy signing is unexpected (to me) and relatively exciting and it lends some positive public perception to the program as still viable…
He’s not perfect, he made plenty of first year starter mistakes last season, a couple of 3 pick games that hurt.
Hope he’s coachable and doesn’t end up a ego-maniac after the big pay day.
But he’s a DJU level (or better) in talent.
On paper, QB Murphy, RB Allah, TE Bowers, WR Clemons look great for a solid potential foundation of playmakers and production. Legitimate size and physical traits….
Need to turn potential into reality though. I suspect Clemons and the WR room have to be fired up and will hopefully be very motivated this off season.
How much eligibility does MM have left? Will he be a junior or senior?
He will be a junior.
Thx
Highlights of Murphy’s season at Duke:
https://youtu.be/B6qdSdVCa-I?si=5RN_NBbm4QVPZx0w
For those who like this sorta info, Detailed analysis of Murphy early last season for Duke:
https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/09/duke-football-maalik-murphy-quarterback-statistical-analysis-pff-passer-rating-grade-numbers-comparison-manny-diaz
Thanks for sharing objcritic! Now we need to protect him with some good o line men!
He sounds like a much better version of DJU keeping in mind the analysis was only 3 games into the season. That said, I think he will be a solid upgrade to our QB situation from last season. The fact he can throw the ball deep with some degree of accuracy is a plus.
Yeah agree. Sounds like he can stretch the field. We just need to give him time to throw.
Didn’t realize Van Wells had another year! Good news!
Don’t we need a speedster too? I don’t remember anyone really taking the top off the D. Or am I just totally blanking cause we didn’t have a QB to take advantage?
Zach Card claims speed equal to or better than Gould and Bolden, and said “they know,” implying it was demonstrated in practice, but…..why can’t he get open and make big plays?
One would think with Clemons, Anderson(?), Card, and with TE Jermaine Terry drawing coverage, someone could get open deep…
Next year add Michali Durant, who redshirted. His High School note: “Grabbed 75 receptions his senior season, totaling 1,301 yards and 20 touchdowns.”
So I think next year some combo of: Clemons, Anderson, Durant, Walker (hopefully becomes 3rd option instead of #1) with Card thrown in for speed? Card would be the only little guy.
Terry is out of eligibility I thought.
Yeah, I meant last season…you’d think someone could have gotten open deep.
In the highlights, with a clean pocket, he does very well (as a QB should). But he also seems to process faster than DJ did (a turtle on coffee would too though).
He threw 26 TDs last year, and if he can be taught to throw it away to reduce TOs and negative plays, he could have really big upside.
Next season starts as follows (I think):
CAL (Home)
Fresno (H)
Texas Tech (Away)
UO (Away)
He could be a difference maker in the first three, the rest of the schedule after UO is manageable. WSU twice in one season may be good timing…make it 3 in a row!
Plus Cal and UO with new qbs, 7 teams on the schedule with new coaches…
The Murphy news is certainly intriguing, but as a Beaver fan in the current environment, I will be tempering my excitement until I hear some practice reports of him lighting it up with the 1s.
Haha!!! I laughed at the title of the post – so true! Hopefully this Murphy kid is as good as advertised. Great QB play can really elevate a team. #1 position on the team by far, I think.
Butch T. Cougar is now entering the portal……
WBB player? Can she shoot the 3, best a press? How many years of eligibility left?
Another TE is visiting this weekend. This one is coming from the Juco ranks.
https://x.com/correia_gavin/status/1869913976697696541?t=naQSTCKQ4-YLr_L5MDlO7A&s=19
Malik Murphy signing takes the sting off of Dom Montiel entering the portal…
Really, a guy that threw for 28 tds and nearly 3k yards is a comparison in impact to a guy that never played?
It’s a joke :-)
Ok, I guess it went right over my head. Lol
Sarcasm, baby!
Is there a new rule for eligibility regarding JC transfers?
Apparently Juco time doesn’t count against eligibility anymore. Seems like you’ll see more HS guys go the JC route. Could be a boon for JC rosters.
Could also hurt G5 schools, unless they’re willing to pay every player on their roster enough to keep them out of developmental leagues like the Juco ranks
Technically the rule only applies to Diego Pavia right now, but yeah it’s expected to open up for all Juco athletes at some point soon.
Apparently no sign yet from DL Collins on if he is staying or going. Hopefully recent recruiting progress convinces him to stay m. He and Johnson (if also staying) should be more impactful with experience.
WBB boat races W.Kenticky 80-58 and WK was 8-1. WK hit ten 3s tonight and I think the Beavs hit 9. A good Miami team on tap for tomorrow night.
Pretty sure WKU had only lost one game? Signs of life from WBB.
Great game by lady’s, a little out of control at times. Wku played hard
They had only 11 turnovers and given they turn it over around 20x per game, that’s a lot of improvement. I watched most of the game and thought their spacing a ball movement was very good and their perimeter shooting was much better 44% and 38% so all in all a much better effort. However, WKU is no miami so we will see tonight. Miami 10-1 so far with an 18 point loss to vandy and a bunch of wins over no names in WBB. Maybe the Beavs have a shot.
Duke people on twitter are saying Murphy was basically forced out of Duke because the coaches told him he didn’t fit their scheme and were bringing in the guy from Tulane. Reading between the lines it sounds like a “your NIL deal isn’t being extended” situation. Several comments saying he’s a very good person and wishing him well.
So it’s a bit like the DJU exit from Clemson.
I did some digging on this, a deep dive on the Duke boards and sent out some DM’s hoping to get a little bit of the back story.
It sounds like Diaz and OC Jonathan Brewer identified Tulane QB Darian Mensah as a better fit for the offense they wanted to run at Duke and began ‘tampering’ for him mid-season. Mensah was known by Brewer when he was QB/co-OC at SMU.
Murphy had a good season, but suffered some bumps (running, pocket presence under pressure, accuracy/timing on short/intermediate routes, etc). Overall he was viewed positively by the Duke fanbase so long as he continued to improve in those areas. Duke coaches just saw Mensah’s game as much better fit for the RPO style of offense they want to run while having to pay him much less.
Murphy wanted to stay at Duke (they elected him Captain) and he had apparently already leased an apartment for 2025 unaware that the coaches were looking elsewhere until the end of the season. With them targeting Mensah in the portal they weren’t going to pay Murphy the high six-figure NIL $ again in 2025 and he would have to take a massive pay cut and compete for the starting job with Mensah. He instead elected to hit the Portal.
He had good visits to Auburn and Kentucky, but wasn’t offered as much NIL $ as he made in 2024 (close to $1 million) and would have to compete with others for the starting job. Again, he wanted to be ‘the guy’ so he kept looking while those schools found others at the price they wanted.
OSU was ready to sign Brendon Lewis, but when he called Memphis to tell them he was signing with the Beavs, they convinced him to delay and come for a visit, and then Michigan entered the conversation. The timing of that created a window for Murphy to take another look at OSU, when he had previously declined to visit again as he wanted to stay in the Power 4.
It was just the timing of how everything played out that ended up landing in the Beavs favor (for once) and Gundy doing the work based on his established relationship with Murphy dating back to recruiting him at UCLA and in the portal last season. Lewis might be the more complete player as a 6th year senior, but there is no denying Murphy’s talent, a win is a win.
It’ll be interesting to hear how much NIL the Beavs are giving Murphy. Always seems like we don’t have much money to offer players, so did he get $1mil from us somehow, or is he taking a pay cut to come here?
So we committed to him being the guy? That’s a slippery slope and seems like it’s a disservice to the younger up and coming guys like KG and GJ.
Bringing in a (relatively) expensive free agent implies he’s going to be the starter, but Johnson and Gutridge have to be willing to compete and out compete. If they aren’t, they’re going to be career backups.
I hope they both work hard and try to prove they’re the guy. I think Gutridge can be a winner, and GJ a change up QB, or , figure out what the offense is with him in and just run it consistently.
I won’t be surprised if GJ looks elsewhere. I think Gutridge stays.
Clemson boards were burning DJ down big time. Dabo fired a very well like OC because DJ was so bad, that OC was the one who got them into the NC with Trevor Lawrence. Clemson hasn’t been the same since.
They’re in the CFP so I think they’re still doing okay. They just signed their first portal transfer ever (FCS transfer) so there are other things holding them back.
I root for Dabo because he’s clinging hard to the old ways and still doing pretty well.
Thanks for the background, it makes more sense. Otherwise, I’m thinking why would a successful starting Power 4 QB transfer to OSU right now. Maybe LOTB in a positive direction!
I have to admit, the Murphy signing has me intrigued enough to watch some beavers football next year.
It reminds me a bit of the DJU signing, where it seemed like OSU got a QB that could throw people open and balance out the offense.
That didn’t happen consistently, and DJ was a slow processor. He did make the difference it seemed in games like CAL and UCLA (UCLA also has suffered from a turnover prone, inexperienced QB).
But WRs, despite their speed, didn’t seem to get as open as expected for DJ.
So now, similar looking challenges. Can the WRs get open? And catch? Can Murphy read-and-decide quickly and well? Can he make the routine, short throws?
I have to think the WR room is excited and will be extra motivated this off season. Hopefully GJ and Gutridge are feeling extra competitive.
But a season that was looking unwatchable is now looking intriguing enough to watch. There will be mistakes obviously, and big plays good and bad. But if receivers can get open and catch, the pass game will be respected and Hakerson and Allah and Hatcher should find more running room. I think Allah will get bigger and faster this off season, obviously a season wiser, and will be producing some big chunk plays.
I watched film of the Duke vs Miami 2024 game to get an idea of what to expect. To me, he’s very similar to DJU, with perhaps a quicker read/release.
But a fee of those balls he launches down field were just sitting ducks waiting to get picked off. One of the commentators said “that’s basically a punt when float it out there like that”
On the plus side, he’s tall and shouldnt get his throws batted down. And a very strong arm. But accuracy is a concern
Was his 1st year starting. If he’s coachable those decisions are correctable. He clearly trusts his arm talent, a little too much sometimes.
He had two 3 INT games. Seems like if the defense scouts him well and DB’s are instructed properly, that’s a major weakness.
Watched those games. Simple correctable mistakes. I’d say at least half of his ints this season were from deep balls where he either missed the double coverage or trusted his arm to throw the guy open too much, or shorter routes that didn’t have enough touch and the ball rifled of the hands/shoulder of his receivers and became up for grabs. All coachable things (if he’s coachable).
He threw 26 TDs against 12 INTs last year. Not great. If he had a 3:1 TD:INT ratio as a Beaver, that would be good to me.
7(?) Beaver passing TDs last season was awful.
One thing that stood out to me is he doesn’t seem to panic when facing a blitz. DJU was ready to curl up in a ball or back peddling and throwing inaccurate passes when blitzed. I miss the Canfield type that could drop a deep pass in. From the highlights Murphy looks like he has nice projection on deep passes. Of course I only saw the ones where he connected with his targets.
I’m telling you guys, his stats are giving me Derek Anderson vibes.
Yeah, similar stats, very different eras and offenses. Anderson would have looked worse without Hass. I bet a third of Anderson’s INTS were from WRs that couldn’t handle the velocity every time, and had passes go off their hands or bodies. It never phased Hass.
Murphy is intriguing.
I’ll be curious to see Angry’s take (he’ll probably not like him much, he looks high risk:reward, with risks more frequent than rewards) and Jack’s take.
Chisom likely to transfer to UCLA.
MBB at 31 in newest NET ranking. Just outside the top 25!
One shining moment is just over the horizon for our WCC lads. Tinkle probably doesn’t mind the change of scenery from PAC12 conference play.
Murphy may also have value in attracting other free agents. I doubt Beavers Collective has much $ to work with. We shall see. A Hodgins-like receiver would be welcome…and a burner with hands obviously…
Bowers said Murphy was part of his decision to commit. I think we’re probably set with our receiver group. All starters return, we get Valsin back and Freauff and some of the other guys have potential. TE seems to be a focus still; we’re hosting a JC TE today.
Defense needs some love now.
Are there any decent o-line recruits being recruited at this time? All this supposed fire power won’t mean squat unless the o-line is solid.
Freauff: 6’3″ WR from Crook County HS in Prineville. Forgot about him, certainly looking forward to seeing him play!
I’m pretty sure I met/saw this guy working at the Golf Course in Prineville at an event I attended earlier this summer. He certainly did stand out; he’s pretty tall.
It’s so funny to hear Crook County associated with football. I grew up there and the only year we were good was my freshman year when Jamal Adams was there. Now Marcus Greaves and Pfleaf(?) are going D1.
What does the oline look like beyond Wells returning?
We have 1 from the portal already but what about last years class or this years signees? Are any ready to contribute now and be good?
Strand, Voltin, Wells, Hand/Elu, Anderson/Cox
Limited career snaps by all these guys except Wells. Strand and Voltin have been good in limited action. Hand is “experienced” but hasn’t actually played much. Cox has also been good in limited field time. It’s going to take a bit for this group to gel.
Add Timoteo to the mix at tackle. That’s decent competition for the outside spots. We’re probably set there. Maybe one more interior guy will come?
Add an extra two for depth and rotation.
The younger guys on the roster fill that role already (Tuia, Hawkes, Esty, Morano)
Any Beavs doing a u-turn on the Portal? Even if Oregon State just becomes like a JUCO where players wanting to see the field go to make a name for themselves – I can live with that. The days of having a player sign on in high school and play four or five years (for anyone) are over.
Beavs lock. Probably that DB
New Beaver lock today.
Assuming it’s Josiah Timoteo from Nevada.
https://x.com/JosiahTimoteo_/status/1866182207410241713?t=ejFoC8ZuF-TTy-u7zvgpXQ&s=19
O-lineman
Coach DeVan quote-tweeted the Beaver lock with the “eyes watching” emoji which usually means the commit helps him.
6’4″, 284 lbs, originally offers from Hawaii, Montana, Navy, New Mexico, SDSU…depth and practice will player?
Two years of starting experience at Nevada. Below average PFF grade this past season (ironically one of his best games was against us). Decent run blocker, but really poor pass blocker.
OL is a numbers game at the end of the day. More guys = good.
Ironically m, or the Beaver DLine was weak?
: )
Was that when Beavs had a backup TE playing DE?
Probably a guard?
He’s a RT. Taylor, Omo and Alfieri had the most pass rush snaps for us on the edge. Not sure what side they were on, but he wasn’t exactly going up against stellar competition.
Started most the season at RT as a redshirt FR
Played 200 snaps the year before, too. Didn’t realize he was a RS-FR this past season. Good upside!
Just saw that on FB so he has a big frame at 6’4″ 284 and those kids from Hawaii are usually very hard workers and loyal. He sounds like a great addition.
Ducks apparently took a Nevada tackle in the portal today too….
From an article on MM signing with Oregon State:
“Landing Murphy was a transfer portal recruiting win for Duke coach Manny Diaz. Murphy picked the Blue Devils over Oregon State, South Carolina and Baylor. This year, the Southern California native passed for 2,933 yards.
Diaz has nothing but love for Murphy, “I’ve got a ton of respect for Maalik Murphy. Our story as a program, it doesn’t happen this way without Maalik. He’s been everything we could have hoped for and more in his time with us. I’m excited for him and his future and I’m glad we were part of each other’s story.”
Murphy was the backup at Texas last year and started two games in relief of an injured Quinn Ewers, throwing for 477 yards and three TDs. His most memorable game was a 33-30 OT win over Kansas State in Austin. The Wildcats were led by current Ohio State QB Will Howard.”
CB TJ Crandall committed
Apparently more beaver locks coming very soon according to another site. Hopefully, a big time receiver, defensive linemen and linebackers too.
There was a JC TE visiting. Anyone else?
Which other site?
And how soon is “very soon”?
It’s already been 4 hours and I havent seen anything to indicate more will happen tonight.
Just some teasing my the damnation NIL site as they try to get more donors
Pure Orange…..and a guy that seems to have some good information…
“Oregon State men’s soccer achieved a program first when Enzo Newman and Sergi Solans were selected during first round of Friday’s MLS SuperDraft.
Newman, a sophomore defender, was taken by FC Dallas with the 11th pick, while Solans, a redshirt freshman forward, went to Real Salt Lake with the 30th pick, the final selection of the first round.
One time Beav QB Ty Thompson looked rough in Tulane’s bowl game today. 11/25 with 3 INT.
*target
Indiana with a full roster, full coaching staff and 2 weeks to prepare look exactly like the Beavs last year against the Golden Domers.
Notre Dame is the quiet favorite to win it all in my view.
A weak Georgia offense won’t move the ball on the Irish.
Indiana was always a fraud.
Don’t disagree on the Notre Dame take though.
Cue the “SEC should have had another team in” tirades…
Not what I said, Indians earned their bid, they were just always going to get blown out.
*And if I were to argue for a team over Indiana it would be Miami. Or even Army (also destined to be blown out but 11-1 at selection time plus conference championship makes them more deserving then any available SEC team).
No, I agree they earned it, but SEC coaches and media will whine…..
Gotcha! Agreed.
Here we go, an abundance of hyperbole…
Indiana rout by Notre Dame proves College Football Playoff made mistake that can’t happen again
Matt Hayes
USA TODAY NETWORK
“So we begin with the obvious: there has never been a bigger miss than by the selection committee in the 11 years of the playoff”
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“It doesn’t change the reality that Indiana’s inclusion in college football’s was a monumental mistake.”
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The keepers of this magnificent sport will work all offseason to find the answers for 2026.
Because another Indiana can’t happen again.”
Only watched several minutes but saw some horrible tackling attempts by Indiana.
Glad it’s 12 teams. There’s about 3 of them that aren’t that good. Could put ole miss in there, Miami, a few others and it would be the same. Army didn’t look good last weekend but maybe they’d match up better against a different offense.
Army literally looked worse than Indiana did against ND… on a neutral field.
And Army is a good team that would have given anyone a decent run this year, as is Navy, who was also dismantled by ND.
I really think ND is just that good this year, and nobody is talking about them due to the NIU loss, which apparently awakened the monster.
I’ve seen a few prognosticators pick ND over Oregon in the championship game…
Didn’t watch a second of the game and doubtful I’ll watch any of the Buy Me a Championship Playoffs. P
I called it. I said that the Notre Dame – Indiana game was going to cue a bunch of media overreactions. About Notre Dame being really good and Indiana not belonging. It’s stupid really. Of course Indiana belonged. They proved it during the season. Just because they got manhandled in one away game doesn’t mean they didn’t earn their spot. Same thing will happen if there are more dominant performances. But are you really going to put a 9-3 Alabama team that got waxed by a mediocre Oklahoma team in the playoffs over 11-1 Indiana? No. You should not. People should not conflate bad playoff performances with belonging or not. The season already determined belonging. The playoffs are supposed to reveal who’s really a contender. Not determine worthiness.
Indiana’s coach is very good! The difference was 4 and 5 star and some future NFL athletes against 2 and 3 star players. ND dominated the line of scrimmage. Great coaching and schemes by Indiana kept the game reasonably close.
refs certainly didnt help with the little i watched.
WBB led 9-1 Miami by 9, but couldn’t hold it. Signs of growth?
OSU nearly pulled off its biggest win of the season, but Miami had enough during the final seven minutes to edge the Beavers 61-56 Friday night in Makawao, Maui.
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The Beavers led by as many as nine points and were within one point with seven minutes remaining. But Miami (11-1) turned back OSU as Cameron Williams and Haley Cavinder combined to score 41 points.
Oregon State got as close as three points with 10 seconds remaining. The third quarter proved to be the Beavers’ undoing, with Miami outscoring OSU 16-6 to take command.
Edging the Beavers…
lady’s gave up 2 many o boards,
Too many turnovers too and just not enough offensive firepower. That said, they are playing better and Miami is a pretty decent team
Does Beavs football ever recruit players with names like Gronowski?
Dylan Sikorski?
They hovered over him…
Don’t know what it says about the CFP, but the FCS semi-final between SDSU and NDSU has been much more entertaining than either playoff game! My fear is that the Quacks have the potential to run the table and we will never hear the last of it in the state for decades and decades.
If they win, it will always be tainted in this no rules open free agency system. So what if they could finally pay their team legally, even a $20 million roster. We know they have been cheating for at least 20 years trying to accomplish it. They are just lucky that NIL came along before Phil Knight died. Now he can be even more obscene in burning his money on college athletes chasing a trophy.
Until the Ducks actually admit they would be in the same or worse situation as OSU without Nike money, everything they win is a hollow victory. Built not bought means something to a lot of fans. NIL is poison for many of us who liked the concept of program building, legacy, loyalty and meaningful accomplishments.
You and I understand that but the average bandwagon Quack fan doesn’t and that will be the reality for us long-suffering Beav fans who live in the state!
Even Pat Kilkenny admitted they’d be in the same situation if not for Uncle Phillip’s $$$$$. However, ducks rarely like to hear the truth bc they are so emotionally attached to the program as that’s one of the few things in their miserable existence they can actually feel good about
It won’t be tainted. They don’t even have the most NIL money and still are winning. We can’t say anything as OSU fans. Pre-NIL Mallik Murphy never comes here.
“Pre-NIL Mallik Murphy never comes here.”
Disagree. Pre- Nil we had:
Derek Anderson(5* QB)
Matt Moore (4* QB transfer)
Sean Mannion(4* QB)
Tristan Gebbia(4* QB transfer)
And wasn’t DJU technically pre-NIL?
Those Texas billionaires are going to have to fork out a lot more money.
If they needed motivation this is it. SMU will be outbidding everyone for additional peices to get to the next step as fast as possible.
I don’t really care about the cfp, but I do wonder how it affects the acquisition of players, when full teams are still playing well into next year.
How do you recruit big names or even depth while you already have depth on your bench waiting to play?
If you don’t win it all, it would be better to lose early, from a recruiting perspective.
Well, you have teams willing to pay millions for kids to sit on the bench, and you have a bunch of kids willing to sit on the bench and get paid millions. It’s a perfect match!
Oregon’s getting players in the portal while prepping for the CFP. Perks to a first round buy. They have money and a large staff to steal players.
North Dakota State coach: “We’re not building a new team every year.” Imagine that.
OT- my youngest just got accepted to OSU, he’s a good high school LB (first-team all-league 6A level), but probably not D-1 talent. Getting D-3 and D-2 offers. He is going to explore walking on, but he’s a talented rugby player and has talked with the Beav coaches. Beavs don’t play top-level college rugby, sort of like FCS. Only 40 colleges play at the highest level. His senior season doesn’t start until March.
It sounds like your kid has a good head on his shoulder. FCS would have been fun for the sporting aspect, but the education he’ll get there is far and above any of those small schools. Congrats. I bet you are ecstatic as a parent.
Yes, his grades are excellent, interestingly the largest academic scholarship has been to Arizona who also play D1 Rugby. His Rugby coach is setting up a meeting with the Arizona coach, but my son’s heart is with the Beavers! He sent film to some of the Beav football coaches, but it’s been crickets. He was injured 90% of his junior season so sort of a unknown.
That’s funny, I live in Arizona and I have a close family friend that has gotten a feeler as a corner from OSU. He’s 6’4 180. He has a 2.5 cumulative GPA (I’ve been telling him for years he has the ability, but needed to bring his grades up.) He’s my oldest son’s best friend. I’m not looking to just do this for OSU, he has had a very hard life. He’s gotten offers from BYU and Wake also. He’s looking to go JUCO, but if he does, I don’t think he will stick with the schooling. I’m really thinking the stability that a D1 program could give him would help. He’s a great kid and I’m just posting to see what he could do to get in a stable program which I think Coach Bray is trying to build.
It sounds like he won’t lose any 4-year school eligibility if he goes JUCO, so there is that!
Hmm… I’ve coached against your kid.
Football or Rugby? Small world!
Rugby. Been coaching in Oregon for …. a long time.
Cool, he’s grown to love the sport.
Tommy Mellot is a pretty entertaining FCS qb. He was good a couple of years ago in the Portland stadium game against the Beavs. Kid has a lot of moxy and athleticism.
Ricky Henderson passed away. The greatest lead off hitter of all time and a true character.
Sat behind Ricky at an Oakland Raider game once, people wouldn’t stop bothering him for autographs…He never said a word to any of them, not even hello, but signed every last one.
Ricky had the swagger we all thought we had. He actually had it and backed it up. One of the greats of the game.
The A’s have always been my favorite team. Ricky was so entertaining, it’s bizarre that he apparently died from pneumonia. He still looked fit when he threw out the first pitch at the A’s last home game in Oakland.
Pics from Raesjon Davis’ official visit:
(Via Dad’s acct)
https://x.com/RashadDaviSr_/status/1870333660874027281?t=4L9lJ90x_1QRFvJUrGqzGg&s=19
Now I see the problem with the Beavers’s toothless D….there’s no goddamned chain!!!
its getting sharpened
Seems like they might have landed him, huge if so.
CB?
Would be great to land him. Seems like we’re getting a lot of the priority targets.
Davis never really set the world on fire at USC. He was part of some disappointing USC defenses. BUT Bray is pretty consistent about getting good production out of LB’s.
tOSU giving Tennessee the business. 21-0 in the 1st quarter.
Suck
Every
Cock
Keeping it classy.
McCoy got burned by Jeremiah Smith on a TD. Lmao
28-10
Davis has committed
https://x.com/raesjon1/status/1870685912491044946?t=G52S3RoPqsmKCUCmTEP8Vg&s=19
Better free agents than I expected.
Who’s paying?!?
So any chance we see an article about what a mistake it was to include Tenn in the College Football Playoff’s, ala the piece in USA Today about Indiana??
Going to be fun to see how ESPN and the SEC homers spin the Tennessee loss. And what all the Alabama fans will say, you know the same Alabama team that LOST to this Tennessee team? lol
Here’s Wetzel: Reputation, let alone the eye test, suggests that the three-loss SEC teams that were left out of the field — Alabama, Ole Miss and South Carolina — would have fared better at the point of attack. Then again, who truly knows?
At least he writes this in support of the concept of “it’s pretty obvious … victories (are) built on dominating the line of scrimmage.”
https://sports.yahoo.com/texas-dominant-win-over-clemson-continues-a-cfp-first-round-pattern-why-all-the-blowouts-005844099.html